InvictaMoto's Devall Boys!

This trip was entered into my other blog - R3R .

With  Neill  having a new blog for his trips and I use others the trips I do, maybe it's time for Devallboys to pause for a while.  

Only a fortnight to go and we will be off on the short run down through France to Alençon  and our hotel for the MotoGP weekend in Le Mans. I had a look at some routes to put into my TomTom. I copied them from Neill's MyRouteApp and then renamed them for my TomTom (with the AFR19 from end)  and added a fuel stop. With no tolls specified on the unit and in MyRouteApp it looks about 226 miles each way.  At cruising speed of say 70mph I'd expect the Rocket to need a fuel stop at around 170 miles, so I needed to add one stop.  This is based on me having a full tank before getting on the Eurotunnel train at the UK end and filling up at the Carrefour in  Alençon after Sunday's racing. The no tolls route still uses sections of Autoroutes between Calais and Rouen but these are the free sections and then national roads thereafter.  With speed limits vastly reduced on national and departmental roads that should do wonders for fuel consumption whilst

Tickets arrived.

With all the uncertainty surrounding the UK's decision to leave the EU it has been suggested by the Department of Transport that our current photo driving licences will no longer be valid in Europe, or at least in the remaining EU countries. To get around this we need to go back in time and get an International Driving Permit.  Basically a cardboard and paper multiple language booklet that has stamps to show what licence entitlements you have.  They also have a photo on them and cost £5.50. But, not every country is signed up to the same Convention!  The last two in 1949 and 1968 have different signatories. What makes it confusing is that the EU27 are mostly signed up to the 1968 Convention but Spain (like the US) is still back in 1949! So to go to Spain after riding through France needs two IDP's!   They also have different validities.  1968 is three years and 1949 only one or the expiry of your UK driving licence whichever occurs soonest . I have one

It's been a bit quiet lately.  I have been planning a Devall Travel trip to Florida and Neill planning his " Fistful of Euros " long summer bike run to Spain and Portugal. Everything is booked. I have had another trawl through the hotel booking sites to see if there is anything on the market that might be nearer than the hotel we have booked.  There are a few but I don't have enough kidneys to sell to pay for them. So we stick with what we have booked. A chateau popped up at over £1000 a night. Would be nice but.....

Both of us booked the Eurotunnel tickets yesterday. Out at 0920 on a Friday and back at 1650 on the Monday. Next job was to buy track tickets. That was done today.  So we're set.

Happy New Year

The hotel is booked and I have been looking to see if any nearer to Le Mans have come online. But so far nothing has popped up. Well, none at a reasonable price. There are loads on booking.com at over £500 a night. We have a slight pause just in case Arsenal reach the Cup Final.